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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">It
really is as easy as rounding up all the support you can muster, have that
support join PPML, submit the proposal that you would like see made policy and
then have your support show their support through PPML and the next PPM. Is
there a reason you do not want to follow that process? It might help gain
support if you provided your underlying motivation(s).</FONT><BR>-John
Sweeting<BR></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi John,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My interest is in having a market for the buying
and selling of IP addresses free from government and psuedo-government
restrictions like taxes and justification requirements.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I think this will best serve the interests of a
community long held in thrall to the vision of an IPv6 transition that simply
has not occurred in anything like the predicted timeframe.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I would prefer that any support I find not be
motivated by perceptions of my motivations, just my words and
ideas.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I voiced support for the concept of having a
informed higher authority make the decision about competing registries requested
in the letter which started the thread. I support competing registries because I
believe that their competitive forces will move the market towards freedom, and
because presumably a competing registry could decide its own, more liberal
transfer policy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My understanding is that one way to get that
accomplished, and I will accede it would be the better way, would be
for the participants in policy making in all 5 RIRs come together to forge
a policy allowing for competing private registries.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But I think that is like expecting Network
Solutions to have voted for competing DNS registrars. Unlikely to happen
due to institutional conflicts of interest. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(I understand that NetSol was not a community run
org like the RIRs, but I see a natural institutional conflict between
those who dominate a closed market and those who seek to expand
it.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(And yes, this is also a commentary on the tiny
number of participants who seem to people the RIR executive positions, and by
extension the tiny groups of vocal participants in the RIR-PPML
process.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(And yes, I have lost trust in ARIN staff since the
MS/Nortel debacle)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But nobody seems too sure what that higher
authority is, and of course some participants see the community of RIR-PPML
participants as the highest authority of all.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I didn't write that letter, nor do I have any
relationship with the writer of the letter, to my knowledge I have never met,
conversed, or emailed with him.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As for changing policy in the ARIN region, that is
my intent, and I have heard from another poster who is interested in
co-sponsoring a proposal designed to create a free market for ip
transfers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So I will work with him to do just as you say,
round up support and see if we can get a proposal that passes muster with the
PPML and can be included in the next PPM.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mike Burns</FONT></DIV>
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